Internet Fame vs Fame

Wompa1

I'm not doing any paper or any sh!t like that on the subject but I saw a clip of Louis CK's last standup and was thinking about how he managed to by pass TicketMaster and Networks by producing his own standup special and selling it online and also arranging his own tour dates and venues as well as selling tickets through his website.

I also remember Conan O'Brien being banned from appearing on television as part of a settlement with NBC but deciding to do a variety show and bring it on the road. He didn't invest any money in advertising, he just tweeted and managed to sell out the entire tour.

Recently this guy called Lil Dicky made a few funny YouTube videos. This one went viral and got 1 million hits in 12 days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC-e5vs6NeY

This one was released today and has nearly a quarter of a million hits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rnFlQAvk8U

Pretty clever. He also put an entire album on his website that is free to download.

So Conan and Louis CK had fame already so they had a market etched out and simply used the internet to reach those fans. This guy and others like Andy McKee and That Franco guy that does his video blog carve out a name for themselves but is there anybody who made it big on the internet, made money from it and who will have staying power or is it a stigma, that they are from the internet and aren't as glamorous or something.

Any examples of people who stayed famous who got recognized online?

The Backwards Man

Any examples of people who stayed famous who got recognized online?

Famous people.

Insect Overlord

Rick Astley... >_>

Karl Stein

Barrack Obama was the little kid on the hit sitcom 'Diff'rent Strokes' which first aired on the internet on the 26th June 1981.

Insect Overlord

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Rick Astley... >_>

You're never gonna give, are you?

refusetolose

Wompa1 wrote: »

Any examples of people who stayed famous who got recognized online?

arctic monkeys

donvito99

Noe i MAy be drunk but i have a poor ubddrstanifing of this thread/

Chucken

Kim Kardashian.

Tigger

Cathal Cloch wrote: »

Barrack Obama was the little kid on the hit sitcom 'Diff'rent Strokes' which first aired on the internet on the 26th June 1981.

obama was 20 in 81

Karl Stein

Tigger wrote: »

obama was 20 in 81

Yes but he was very small.

ColeTrain

Tigger wrote: »

obama was 20 in 81

Watch you talkin about

Wompa1

refusetolose wrote: »

arctic monkeys

I didn't know they got big on the net. I know their first video was grainy. They still around?

Chucken wrote: »

Kim Kardashian.

Wasn't that an actual DVD being sold in Sex stores?

Seachmall

I'd recognise a handful of YouTube celebrities if I met them in real life. I'd say they're all living fairly comfortably if not millionaires.

Not bad for recording a couple of ~10 minute long videos a week.

AnonoBoy

Wompa1 wrote: »

I didn't know they got big on the net. I know their first video was grainy.

The Arctic Monkeys were touted as the band that Myspace made huge but I think they dispute that.

While people were talking about them on the net and Myspace was used to reach out to fans the truth is that they did it the old-fashioned way - by gigging their asses off and writing catchy tunes.

They would have become big in any decade - it might have taken a bit longer without the internet but it wasn't as if they were recluses that never got out and about.

They still around?

They're headling The Electric Picnic this year.

Wacker The Attacker

Cytherea.

stoneill

Charlie - but only after he bit my finger.

gramar

Internet fame is like monopoly money. Worth fook all.

Dymo

gramar wrote: »

Internet fame is like monopoly money. Worth fook all.

Except the people who made millions from there internet fame, which there are quite a lot.

castletownman

Allison Stokke is basically this super hot American college pole vaulter who hasn't made a name for herself either at Olympic level or elite amateur level but is well known amongst the more perverted sports followers. Myself included

bonzodog2

Cathal Cloch wrote: »

Yes but he was very small.

Or far away

Michael D Not Higgins

Justin Beiber

MadYaker

Justin Bieber got his career through youtube, I think thats where Usher found him singing on the street or something and then signed him to his record label.

Dravokivich

Tila Tequila no?

krudler

gramar wrote: »

Internet fame is like monopoly money. Worth fook all.

You do realise being a youtube uploader with a channel that has substantial views and shares pays a pretty decent wage? some of the gaming channels can pull in upwards of 40-50k a year, not bad for playing Call of Duty all day and recording commentaries.

J Bourke

http://s2.jrnl.ie/media/2011/12/Ice-man-390x285.jpg

Id love to have a pint with him :pac:

Seedy Arling

Many, many porn stars.

Not that i'd know or anything.

<_<

>_>

Problem123456

krudler wrote: »

You do realise being a youtube uploader with a channel that has substantial views and shares pays a pretty decent wage? some of the gaming channels can pull in upwards of 40-50k a year, not bad for playing Call of Duty all day and recording commentaries.

Yeah and people like raywilliamjohnson and smosh make 90k+ a MONTH alone on their main channels.
Not counting stuff like product placement

af_thefragile

krudler wrote: »

You do realise being a youtube uploader with a channel that has substantial views and shares pays a pretty decent wage? some of the gaming channels can pull in upwards of 40-50k a year, not bad for playing Call of Duty all day and recording commentaries.

I remember Tomska, guy who makes some funny and unfunny animations and other videos, saying he can make upto five figures in a month from his YouTube videos.

krudler

Those guys can laugh in the face of everyone who said playing video games all day will get you nowhere :pac: